Technology Activities

The History of Illinois Agriculture presents these activities and lesson plans
to teachers, students, and anyone interested in exploring the themes and research
we covered in the Web site. All ages will enjoy many of these activities.

For students of science and math:Webquest: Illinois
Prairie — Changing an Ecosystem
Play the role of a pioneer farmer, a botanist, a zoologist, or an ecologist
in this group lesson, use internet sites to research your topics, and create
a trophic pyramid and a food web for the prairie ecosystem and for the farm
ecosystem on the land when the pioneer farmer begins farming.

Birkbeck, Morris and Flower, George (1968). History of the English Settlement
in Edwards County Illinois, founded in 1817 and 1818, by Morris Birkbeck and
George Flower. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

Bogue, Allan G. (1994). From Prairie to Corn Belt: Farming on the Illinois
and Iowa Prairies in the nineteenth century. Iowa State University Press.

Calkins, Earnest E. (1937, reprint, 1989). They Broke the Prairie: Being
some account of the settlement of the upper Mississippi valley by religious
and education pioneers, told in terms of Galesburg. University of Illinois
Press.

Clemens, Terri (1994). American Family Farm Antiques. Wallace-Homestead
Book Company.

Cobbett, William (1828). A Year’s Residence in the United States
of America, part 3. Published by the author in London. Online at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/lhbtnbib:@field(TITLE+@od1(A+year's+residence,+in+the+United+States+of+America+))
Library of Congress, American memory Project, Travels in America. (10/30/03)